Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

For the 20th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about Healthcare Assumptions You Should Bank On. We often talk to people are just entering the health IT space. The overwhelming theme from these people is that there are so many things in healthcare that they didn’t expect.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 27, 2023

Getting your hands on the data necessary to make breakthroughs in healthcare is a significant challenge given its sensitive nature. Essentially, we need a way to have our cake (access raw health data to drive life-saving advances in medical care) and eat it too (maintain said data’s privacy). Grab your fork.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Principles Concerning Privacy According to Zebley, the privacy team believes that the federal government must update HIPAA, which covers organizations narrowly associated with traditional medical treatment, and regulated the many organizations and digital apps that collect personal health data. HIPAA was last revised in 2013.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

For example, in the healthcare industry, we have to abide by HIPAA — a law that helps protect the privacy and security of people’s health information. We can’t serve our patients if we don’t ensure that protected health information (PHI) is kept private.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2023

Sharing of Data in a Patient Portal Most patients are familiar with HIPAA and of course, expect data to be kept securely in accordance with HIPAA requirements. Now, there is a trend toward an expectation that patients are able to either download or share their data on demand.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission has cited telehealth and prescription drug discount provider GoodRx for sharing sensitive consumer health data with several advertising platforms, in violation of its own privacy promises to consumers. The agency has filed a proposed order demanding that GoodRx pay $1.5 including Facebook and Google.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Bruno described some of the challenges that healthcare organizations face when it comes to creating seamless experiences for their patients and members: Digital Data is Difficult to Use Data is Incomplete HIPAA Restrictions on Data Collection Digital Identify Verification is Hard Collecting all of the right data in a compliant way and then applying (..)

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The HHS Office for Civil Rights is investigating whether Google met HIPAA requirements when it pulled together millions of patient records when working with the Ascension health system.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 23, 2023

To hear more about the current healthcare cyberattacks , we reached out to our lovely Healthcare IT Today Community. web vulnerability scanners are another example of a solution that can help healthcare IT administrators best protect their critical assets.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Preserving data security and privacy is the foundational principle on which our business was built. We enable data and analytic solutions that drive new insights to improve our society and, in this case, healthcare. This enables us to monitor downstream use cases and verify their compliance. Learn more at [link].

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 14, 2023

In his 25+ years working in cybersecurity, the majority of his career was spent in the healthcare industry, where he held roles such as HIPAA security officer, information security manager, health information technology director, and security auditor for several large health systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

Most Visited Healthcare IT Resource Pages. Healthcare IT and EHR Conferences and Events. Healthcare GIS. Most Visited Healthcare IT Today Articles Published in 2022. The Role of Digital Care Journeys in a Health System’s Digital Front Door Strategy. Top Healthcare IT Today Interviews Podcasts.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The following is a guest blog post by Justin Campbell, Vice President, Strategy, at Galen Healthcare Solutions. Purging Guidelines & Criteria HIPAA privacy rules do not address medical record retention requirements, and the guidelines from several states and the federal government are ambiguous at best.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The following is a guest article by Anthony Murray, Chief Interoperability Officer at MRO In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, the quest for interoperability has become paramount. While the vision of seamless data exchange promises improved patient care and streamlined operations, the journey is not without its hurdles.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The content of this article is taken from a panel Kno2 hosted as part of the recent Civitas Networks for Health 2022 Annual Conference , in collaboration with DirectTrust™ within a track dedicated to the sharing of health data to advance health equity.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 24, 2021

Jeremiah Fowler with the WebsitePlanet research term recently shared that they discovered over 1 billion records from a non-password protected CVS Health Database. The database was over 204 GB of data with 1,148,327,940 records.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Protecting Health Data As the healthcare industry’s reliance on AI increases, organizations must establish clear guidelines and guardrails to govern its use and strategic use. AI and Ethics: Cognitive and Algorithmic Biases AI relies on the validity of the datasets from which it pulls information.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 14, 2020

Apple and Google have announced that they’ll work together to help governments and health agencies trace contacts made by people who have contracted the COVID-19 virus. The effort, which will only involve users who have opted in, will rely on Bluetooth technology.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 5, 2019

While we’ve been writing about EMR data archiving since back in 2009 and then again in 2013 and 2014 to name a few, the topic has never been more important than it is today. With many healthcare organizations literally supporting 100s and even 1000s of health IT software, how you handle legacy systems including data […].

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

This week, the news broke that a data breach at the neurology department at Massachusetts General Hospital had exposed private health information on nearly 10,000 people. According to a story appearing in the Boston Globe, an authorized third party got to data stored in software used by MGH researchers.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

To talk more about the regulatory considerations for implementing these emerging technologies, we reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community for their insights. This is what they had to say on this topic. However, as the potential benefits of these expand, so do mounting concerns regarding regulations.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 16, 2023

The following is a guest article by Deven McGraw , Co-Founder of Ciitizen® and Lead for Data Stewardship and Data Sharing at Invitae Corporation HIEs and HINs Should take Key Actions Now to Prepare for the Enforcement of the Information Blocking Rules On Sept.

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